Re: Custom subcommand help handlers

[Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>]

Another observation.

This also applies to external aliases
  git -c alias.fr='!git-filter-repo' fr --help
returns
  'fr' is aliased to '!git-filter-repo'
 w exit code 0

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 8:53 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > I should point out that in most cases on Unix, it _is_ expected that you
> >> > install your manual pages into the same place as everyone else, so in
> >> > this case, installing the HTML documentation alongside Git's may be the
> >> > best solution.
> >>
> >> Yup, that sounds like the most sensible way to do things.
> >
> > So what about `~/bin/git-my-reply-to-junio`? Do we expect people to write
> > a manual page and install it into `~/man/man1` and for `man` to pick that
> > up?
>
> Yes, if they write one, and then tell man that you have extra
> manpages there via MANPATH.
>
> I expect people *not* to write a manual page in practice for such a
> thing, though ;-)